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Week 178


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
This week has followed in much the same vein as the last. Lots of rushing between meetings, squeezing in the time to do the work that needs to fit around...

Continuing to consider Drupal


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
A little over three years ago I wrote a piece entitled “Assessing Drupal as a Rails developer.” In it I attempted to lay out a few of the reasons...

Week 177


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
I lost my way with these back at the end of August, but it feels like it could be helpful to start again. So here we go… I’ve spent a fair...

History Hack Day


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
My officemate Matt has spent the past few weeks putting together the inaugural History Hack Day, which took place at the Guardian offices last weekend....

Thoughts on the state of the "East London Tech City" initiative


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
Last Monday I was at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to explore the government’s “Tech City” scheme to do something to do with...

News Sauce


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
One of the projects that occupied the latter half of my 2010 was the build and launch of News Sauce. It’s an aggregator product that we’ve built on...

Seen through devices


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
I’ve been musing on Mike Kuniavsky’s notes from his Microsoft Social Computing Symposium for a few days. While his focus is ostensibly on physical products...

Adding actions to Devise controllers


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
Adding Actions to Devise Controllers It wasn’t the most fun I could imagine having during a “holiday season” but while holed up in Chicagoland over...

Rails 3 Theme Support


over 1 year ago by jystewart on a work on process.
A few months back I set out to port theme_support (my rails plugin to allow one app to serve different views under various conditions) to Rails 3. I got...

Week 152


almost 2 years ago by jystewart on a work on process.
This is always a strange week in my annual calendar. So much of my work is focussed around Greenbelt—which is now less than a week away—that many, many...